Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1945 — Page 18

Probe of Navy Officer's s Trial

_* Diversion of navy meat to the black day. market in Hawaii and a party fea- | The .occasion was a Mead com) turing hula girls and roast pig were | | mittee investigation into the court ; | martial acquittal of Cmdr. Laurence [p. Blodgett, former commanding officer at the navy's West Loch sub depot at Oahu, Hawaii, on food ai-| version charges. Blodgett since has been retired | {and reprimanded by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz who denounced the court {martial acquittal as a “miscarriage {of justice.” | Nimitz also has ordered a repri- | mand for Capt. J. 8. Dowell, now! {retired, who was Blodgett's senior |officer in charge of the naval am{munition depot at Oahu, He also reprimanded Capt. Hunter J. Norton, who did some investigation of | the case and absolved Blodgett of |

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Party Before Hearing ! The roast pigs and the hula girls] were involved in a party that took | | place shortly before the court mar- | tial, witnesses said. -In Hawaiian { terms, it was a “luau.” | — Navy witnesses testified that: i y { 1. The “luau” was sponsored by ALPS’ SHOE members of the legal office of the 14th naval district at Oahu who drew up the charges against Blodgett but did not participate in the; trial, | 2, Blodgett and his wife attended and furnished two pigs for the meal. 3 A lieutenant (J.g) named Rouse, appointed ‘to prosecute Blodgett attended but left and didn't {eat any pig when it was announced | {that Blodgett supplied them. 4, The hula girls’ performance | apparently was included in the $5 | admission fee and was not arranged by Blodgett. It was not disclosed where Blod-| {gett got the pigs, | Inspector Finds Meat It all began Feb, 10, 1945, when Lt. Col. Ivan C. Stickney of the ma- | {rine corps, on a routine inspection, {found in a marine cold storage locker quantities of food labeled, | “Property of Commander Blodgett

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As the committee got the story, | Blodgett supposedly got the meat from Earl M. Swartz, then a civilian supervisor of cold storage at the Pear] Harbor naval base Since Nimitz and Secretary of | Navey Forrestal became interested, { the whole matter of irregularities in {the 14th naval district has been { opened. Rear Adm, Austin K. Doyle has been appointed to do the job In addition to the Blodgett case he is to investigate alleged sales of (raw meat from navy supplies to | civilian restaurants and taverns in | Hawaii. |

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